Timeline for Do we have an unofficial quota on how many old questions one should bump for minor edits in a single day?
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| Oct 1, 2020 at 5:27 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
added (bumping) - to make this question easier to find when the same issue is discussed again
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| Sep 12, 2013 at 13:28 | comment | added | Benjamin Steinberg | I think filling the active questions with lots of edits is particularly bothersome for those who mostly us MO on mobile devices because only a handful of questions are visible without scrolling in mobile mode. | |
| Sep 12, 2013 at 13:08 | history | edited | Benjamin Steinberg |
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| Sep 12, 2013 at 12:48 | answer | added | Joseph O'Rourke | timeline score: 9 | |
| Sep 6, 2013 at 23:04 | answer | added | Pietro Majer | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 6, 2013 at 13:44 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | @RicardoAndrade: I would love to see a feature request that asks for feature requests to be addressed! | |
| Sep 5, 2013 at 16:09 | answer | added | Todd Trimble | timeline score: 10 | |
| Aug 12, 2013 at 13:25 | comment | added | Alexey Muranov | How about a "minor edit" flag? | |
| Aug 9, 2013 at 14:27 | vote | accept | Benjamin Steinberg | ||
| Aug 8, 2013 at 17:53 | comment | added | Ricardo Andrade | @quid: I would upvote a feature request for a new tab like that. Unfortunately, such a feature is unlikely to ever see the light of day, judging by how most feature requests are ignored... | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 17:07 | comment | added | user9072 | @Martin that math.SE example is really extreme, almost makes me believe they let it go through on purpose. | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 17:03 | comment | added | user9072 | A bit off-topic here but just as a vague idea, perhaps to get realized a feature-request for an additional tab (say, containing only new questions and answers), or a replacement of another one (say 'hot') by this, would have more chance of success than the 'minor edits should not bump' request. | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 17:00 | comment | added | user9072 | I am a bit unsure what you mean by 8 questions filling almost the entire question active question list. The frontpage (when logged in) holds a lot more than 8 questions (at least for me, though this might depend), and if one actually goes to /questions than it is 'infinite.' In view of what I said regarding the not spending much time, I sometimes even think whether doing edits in larger bursts would not be better, since then if somebody sees say 15 questions all modified by the same users within half an hour, they might infer this is very likely only minor edits and skip that block. | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 16:52 | comment | added | user9072 | if at the top there is nothing interesting (to me) or new (but just some edits) then I look further down not paying much attention or investing much time in the things at the top-position and thus in the time-span I intend to stay on the site arrive at going further down than if everything at the top was interesting/new. (Sure it might happen some old post only bumped due to an edit starts to interest me as perhaps I had never seen it before, and so I read it instead of something newer, but then if I found it interesting it is not so clear what is lost). In addition [cont] | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 16:47 | comment | added | user9072 | @BenjaminSteinberg: yes, I partly agree. Still, sometimes one can get away with the impression that some (not you specifically) do not really realize there are other tabs too, and since you explcitly mentioned the risk of missing a question I mentioned it. However, I am also not sure the effect is as large as you describe. Namely, I think it is an oversimplifcation to assume that there is an absolute or even very strong correlation with things getting looked at an their precise position in the active queue. Sure I an I assume many/most others start looking at the top of it, but then [cont] | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 16:19 | comment | added | Benjamin Steinberg | @quid, but active is very convenient for seeing new answers. If you answer a question and it immediately gets bumped off the active page then few people will see your answer. | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 16:17 | comment | added | Martin | @NoahSnyder: The approval process would be enough if all reviewers actually looked at what they approve. But experience shows that some of them don't, as witnessed in this discussion on meta.SO. People manage to approve suggested edits such as this one on other sites. | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 16:10 | comment | added | user9072 | I would like to underline one point @MartinSleziak mentions in passing, namely, that 'active' is not the only tab (but precisely the one that shows "every" activity). When I do not have much time for visiting MO frequently, I browse newest where I get all (new) questions ordered in reverse chronological order (nothing whatsoever causes any bumps in that tab). Newest is a bit limiting, but 'hot' could be a reasonable compromise (not everything that bumps in 'active' bumps in 'hot', eg pure tag-edits do not show up in 'hot'). | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 15:48 | comment | added | user9072 | @NoahSnyder: I agree with the first sentence. But do not understand the second one. Before low-reo users could not edit others' posts at all and editing their own does not go through review. (So there seems no 'security-improvement' relative to before.) | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 14:05 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | It's there to stop malicious edits from going unnoticed. I'm not sure why it's still necessary now that low rep edits go through an approval process. | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 12:13 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | @MichaelAlbanese Of course, everything depends on the way you are viewing questions (whether you choose newest tab, active tab, ...) A list of things that cause bump is given at meta.SO: What can cause my question to be bumped? See also tag-wiki for (bump). | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 11:57 | comment | added | Michael Albanese | Why does editing bump questions to the front page? Is there an official explanation? Why does an edit cause the post to be bumped, but a comment doesn't? Just to be clear, I'm not saying a post should or shouldn't be bumped when edited, I'd just like to see the reasoning behind it. | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 11:55 | answer | added | Martin Sleziak | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 5:38 | answer | added | Michael Albanese | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 4:49 | history | edited | Ricardo Andrade |
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| Aug 8, 2013 at 4:45 | comment | added | Ricardo Andrade | I agree that bumping lots of posts to the front page is undesirable. Nevertheless, I would like to say that at least several of the edits in question corrected mathjax rendering problems. In fact, it was this recent series of edits which led me to start the thread meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/598/…. | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 4:02 | comment | added | Benjamin Steinberg | In my opinion one should not do minor edits to more than 3-5 old posts in a 5 hour time period. Doing say 8 minor edits in a short burst can fill almost the entire active question list with old questions which means that new questions may be missed. | |
| Aug 8, 2013 at 4:00 | history | asked | Benjamin Steinberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |